Meanings
nounadunation (plural adunations)
plural adunations
- archaicThe act of uniting; union.
[W]e are taught, that all the body of holy actions and miniſteries are to unite in production of the event, and that without that adunation one thing alone cannot operate: [...]
1678, Jeremy Taylor, “The History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […]. The Third Part.”, in Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC, ad section XV (Considerations of Some Preparatory Accidents before the Entrance of Jesus into His Passion), discourse XX (Of Death, and the Due Manner of Preparation to It), page 397
Origin
- Latinadūnātiō
- Englishadunation
From Latin adūnātiō, from ad + ūnus (“one”).
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